Italian Minor
The Italian minor prepares students to achieve an advanced proficiency in the language in all four fundamental skills—listening, speaking, reading, and writing. While developing their analytical and critical abilities, students explore texts and topics in Italian literature and culture from the Middle Ages to the present.
Minors in Italian will take a minimum of six courses numbered ITAL 1501 Intermediate Italian I and higher, to be chosen in consultation with the assigned departmental Italian minor advisor.
Courses for the minor, to be completed all in Italian, normally include the following:
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| ITAL 1501 | Intermediate Italian I | 3 |
| ITAL 1502 | Intermediate Italian II | 3 |
| ITAL 2001 | Italian Language and Literature 1 | 3 |
| or ITAL 2201 | Italian Community Engaged Learning: Art and Society | |
| Three additional electives in Italian 2 | 12 | |
- 1
Either course serves as the prerequisite for all 3000-level and above courses.
- 2
Any course with the ITAL subject code numbered above 2201 may fulfill this requirement. One 2000-level course (above ITAL 2001/ITAL 2201) is suggested. Courses with the ITAL attribute may also apply with the Italian adviser's permission.
Students who place out of ITAL 1501, ITAL 1502, or ITAL 2001/ITAL 2201 will replace them with upper-level elective courses (see footnote 2 above).
AB and IB Credit
All courses counting towards the core language requirement and the major or the minor in a modern foreign language, literature and culture must be taken for credit and a letter grade. When AP or IB credits are awarded as equivalent to the 1502 level in a language, these credits will be applied toward the core language requirement and, as elective credits, toward graduation, but they will not be applied toward the major or the minor in that language.
Study Abroad
Up to two courses for the Italian minor may be taken abroad. These courses must be approved by the Italian minor advisor prior to studying abroad.
Availability
The minor in Italian is available at Fordham College at Rose Hill and Fordham College at Lincoln Center. Students in Fordham's School of Professional and Continuing Studies may minor in Italian only if they receive the approval of their advising dean and/or department, and their schedules are sufficiently flexible to permit them to take day courses at the Rose Hill or Lincoln Center campuses.